With flashing eyes and an ever-so-revealing dress, mezzo-soprano Marina Domashenko peers from the 25-by-30-foot banner hanging outside downtown's Civic Theatre, where she'll make her local debut Saturday in San Diego Opera's new production of Bizet's “Carmen.”

If the Federal Communications Commission has its way, broadcast television will from now on be limited to programs appropriate for small children and acceptable to religious zealots. And we adults on the East and West coasts will only be allowed to see programs at 10 p.m. that are suitable for bedtime viewing by kids in Kansas.